Content: Green Mobile Networks
Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I Green Mobile Networking Technologies
1 Fundamental Green Networking Technologies
1.1 Energy Efficient Multi-cell Cooperation
1.2 Heterogeneous Networking
1.3 Mobile Traffic Offloading
1.3.1 Infrastructure Based Mobile Traffic Offloading
1.3.2 Ad-hoc Based Mobile Traffic Offloading
1.3.3 User-BS Associations in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks
1.4 Device-to-Device Communications and Proximity Services
1.5 Powering Mobile Networks With Renewable Energy
1.6 Green Communications via Cognitive Radio Communications 1.7 Green Communications via Optimizing Mobile Content Delivery2 Multi-cell Cooperation Communications
2.1 Traffic Intensity Aware Multi-cell Cooperation
2.1.1 Cooperation to Estimate Traffic Demands
2.1.2 Cooperation to Optimize Switching Off Strategy
2.2 Energy Aware Multi-cell Cooperation
2.3 Energy Efficient CoMP Transmission
2.3.1 Increasing Energy Efficiency for Cell Edge Communications
2.3.2 Enabling More BSs Into Sleep Mode
2.4 Summary and Future Research
2.4.1 Coalition Formation
2.4.2 Green Energy Utilization
2.4.3 Incentive Mechanism
2.5 Questions 3 Powering Mobile Networks with Green Energy3.1 Green Energy Models: Generation and Consumption
3.1.1 Green Power Generation
3.1.2 Mobile Network Energy Consumption
3.2 Green Energy Powered Mobile Base Stations
3.2.1 Green Energy Provisioning
3.2.2 Base Station Resource Management
3.3 Green Energy Powered Mobile Networks
3.3.1 Off-Grid Green Mobile Networks
3.3.2 On-Grid Green Mobile Networks
3.3.3 Mixture of Green Base Stations and Grid Powered Base Stations
3.4 Summary
3.5 Questions
4 Spectrum and Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
4.1 Spectrum Harvesting Techniques 4.1.1 Energy Efficiency in Spectrum Harvesting Networks4.1.2 Enhancing Energy Efficiency Through Spectrum Harvesting
4.2 Energy Harvesting Techniques
4.2.1 Green Energy Harvesting Models
4.2.2 Green Energy Utilization and Optimization
4.2.3 Cognitive Functionalities in Energy Harvesting
4.3 FreeNet: Spectrum and Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
4.3.1 FreeNet Application Scenarios
4.3.2 Dynamic Network Architecture Optimization
4.3.3 Communication Protocol Suite Design
4.4 Summary
4.5 Questions
Part II Green Mobile Networking Solutions 5 Energy and Spectrum Efficient Mobile Traffic Offloading5.1 Centralized Energy Spectrum Trading Algorithm
5.1.1 System Model and Problem Formulation
5.1.2 A Heuristic Power Consumption Minimization Algorithm
5.2 Auction-Based Decentralized Algorithm
5.2.1 An Auction-Based EST Scheme
5.3 Performance Evaluation
5.3.1 Centralized Energy Spectrum Trading Algorithm
5.3.2 Auction-Based Decentralized Algorithm
5.4 Summary
5.5 Questions
6 Optimizing Green Energy Utilization for Mobile Networks with Hybrid Energy Supplies